Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.
The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 22 July 2087 at 22:43.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2087 after 17 days on 14 August 2087 at 06:54.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1082 of Meeus index or 2035 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠37.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠62.7°.
2 days since point of perigee on 25 July 2087 at 08:02 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 August 2087 at 16:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 369 952 km (229 878 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 051 km (251 066 mi).
2 days after descending node on 24 July 2087 at 12:18 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 August 2087 at 01:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 26 July 2087 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.684° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.587° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 August 2087 at 10:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 2 days on 29 July 2087 at 18:20 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov